An alternative method of solution to radiative transfer

In this work, we propose an alternative method for solving a to radiative transfer equation in the four-stream approximation following the ideas of Jimenez-Aquino and Varela (2005). We use the Li and Ramaswamy (1995) proposal to establish the set of four coupled first-order differential equations associated with the radiances or radiative intensities. The method consists in transforming those four coupled differential equations into a set of four independent fourth-order differential equations associated with the quantities Ms and Md, which represent the sum and the difference respectively of two radiative intensities. As a consequence of this fact, the solutions for the radiative intensities are then easily calculated, and no matrix method is required.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Jiménez-Aquino,J.I., Varela,J.R., Pérez-Guerrero N,A.C.
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Sociedad Mexicana de Física 2006
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1870-35422006000200005
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